So, I was driving down the road today and figured out one way to put a face on the new airline business model for international market penetration and market share:


Delta:


Delta/KLM/AF


Sky Team:



Co-branding. Works great. More money per sq foot. Customers get variety. Employees get stability. Everyone happy.

Unless you work in construction or didn't get that life long dream job of working at taco bell because there were only 5 jobs instead of 10.

Now I'm not being anti-Sky Team or anti-JV/codeshare, its just going to get real murky on whose job that could've been and really ugly if planes start disappearing from the line because they're no longer needed.

Do I think this is happening? No. But I do think its high level poker for DALPA and it'll be interesting to know how they feel it needs to be handled in the years going forward when say neither the current management or MEC is there.